Children of parents with psychiatric or behavioural issues who were adopted before age 10 into families with better home environments, showed improved adult psychosocial outcomes than their unadopted siblings, finds study

In a new study, our group examined whether improved home environments were associated with better psychosocial functioning among at‑risk children across generations, using an adoption‑discordant sibling design.
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New paper: Parental education is linked to offspring mental health, but this may reflect unmeasured confounding. We examined Sweden’s reform that increased mandatory schooling from 7 to 9 years by comparing individuals born just before vs. just after the change. /1